17. This record is revolutionary based on the incredibly sparse grooves by Tony Williams, mainly the Hi-hat driving the songs with the band weaving in and out of sublime conversations. WebOscar Peterson discography and songs: Music profile for Oscar Peterson, born 15 August 1925. I suppose subjectivity is inevitable when it comes to taste and naming the best 50 albums is impossible. etc. Northern LIghts Mike Mainieri. Thanks again! JavaScript is disabled. Most people do not know the work of Laurindo Almeida, and of course we know Sergio Mendes. 23. Also, in my opinion the list needs more women like Ella and (as a Swede Im obliged to say) Monica Zetterlund. Issued as the inaugural release of Granzs newly formed Verve label, it struck the right balance between pop accessibility and jazz expression thanks to the combination of Fitzgeralds impeccable vocals and Buddy Bregmans tasteful arrangements. The sets only slow song, Vein Melter, is an oozy soundscape. New Song Omer Avital. Hopefully, this means our selections are as rich, varied and perhaps surprising as the history of jazz itself. But the woeful Ayler and Dolphy are in there? Where are Nina and Ella? Quoting from your website With a few exceptions every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in someway by her genius . The Crusaders opened my door to jazz and following the sound of the saxophone there were suddenly Tom Scott, Stan Getz, John Klemmer, Ben Webster, Sonny Rollins and many more. Taylor and his cohorts take no prisoners with their sound collages, which, to the uninitiated, are unremittingly intense and challenging. And while Im at it, what about John Coltranes Ascension? Id love to know who your jury was. 15. Timeless John Abercrombie. They have been compared to the Buena Vista Social Club that rare and welcome push to re-evaluate a genre and (in this case) to revisit some favourite jazz standards as well as listen to fresh material from an unlikely and unexpected source. On the Town 3. Key track: Hat And Beard, St Louis-born Nelson was a talented saxophonist who could play both the tenor and alto varieties, but who earned more fame during his relatively short career as a masterful arranger who could turn his hand to TV soundtracks and movie scores. What should be my next album? All masterpieces. Here are just a few of the albums that showcase the genius of legendary musician Paul Desmond. Metheny was just 21 and teaching at Bostons Berklee School of Music when ECM producer Manfred Eicher, who had heard him play with vibraphonist Gary Burtons group, recorded the young guitarist with fretless bass maven Jaco Pastorius and drummer Bob Moses. Jazz Goes To Junior College Yet Bitches Brew is the worst album that Miles ever put out. In a recent interview, Diana Krall said that Oscar Petersons Night Train was the album that made her want to be a jazz pianist and specifically made her want to play with Ray Brown. No Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Art Tatum,Lester Young, Teddy Wilson or Billie Holiday for starters! Time Out Dave Brubeck Quartet (1959, Columbia) During WWII, Desmond was drafted into the army and, although he never saw combat, he did meet and perform with pianist Dave Brubeck. Even George Harrison once said, Theres nobody on this planet or any other planet that can play like that. Never No Lament: the Blanton Webster band. Thanks. Miles Davisdont think soChetBillie Holiday!!! It is a bit disturbing that there was nothing after 1977 and that very few post 77 albums were mentioned in the replies. Key track: I Remember, Despite passing away at the age of 25 from tuberculosis, Texas-born Christian did enough during his short career to achieve immortality and earn a place in the pantheon of jazz guitar greats. I tasted Miles Davis Bitches Brew before, it was great. What!? WebIn 2000 it was voted number 636 in Colin Larkin 's All Time Top 1000 Albums. UNION DUES BLUES!!! Pilgrimage was Breckers final solo album, recorded during 2006 in the stellar company of Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, Brad Mehldau, John Patitucci, and Jack DeJohnette. He is the only european artist, who belongs to top 50 of Jazz! Oscar Peterson My favorite Instrument Peggy Lee,Anita ODay,June Christy,Diana Krall,Jackie Cain,how about Sassy Sarah..Chis Connors,And of course,Carmen McRae,Mildred Bailey.And of courseThe First Lady of JazzMiss Ella Fitzgerald topping this list. The four tracks here range from epic spaced-out funk (Chameleon) to atmospheric tropical grooves (an offbeat, African-influenced reworking of his 1963 Blue Note classic, Watermelon Man) and edgy, syncopated fusion (Sly). Dont know how he ended, but he made a mess of his music after some time? RAY CHARLES IN PERSON, GENIUS PLUS SOUL EQUALS JAZZ, ANY CHARLIE PARKER, So so many But Chick Corea Tap Step gets me in the creative train of thought. Erroll Garner holds the Tide at one of his Concert by the Sea Miles Davis Birth of the Cool Chick Corea And a comment on a comment, Coltrane played out of tune and doesnt belong on this list? Dark Starr David Murray. thank you , Wow what a great list! 31. John Coltrane made the Giant Steps, before Giant Steps were made. Oscar Peterson Albums, Songs - Discography - Album of It stands as one of the greatest jazz albums ever recorded. John Coltrane Inside this Train, theres a lady called A Love Supreme. Carla Bley Escalator Over The Hill After debuting in 1956, Evans quickly made his mark in the jazz world and, two years later, was recruited by Miles Davis, helping to shape the sound of his groundbreaking 1959 album, Kind Of Blue. Dreams & Daggers is a masterwork that thrust McLorin Salvant into the pantheon of great jazz singers. And His Mother Called Him Bill. How can you have a list of great jazz recordings, and not have April In Paris Count Basie on it, Chet Baker Live in Tokyo should be in Topten. If each and every one of you compiled your top 50, it would be a beautiful and diversified list. I have most of them, just missing one an ommision I need to remedy, and will soon. Though Basies Decca tenure was short, it was incredibly fertile, resulting in the hits Honeysuckle Rose and Pennies From Heaven. His band at the time included Lester Young, Freddie Green and Jo Jones, as well as vocalists Jimmy Rushing and Helen Humes. . Well done those and I wish they had simply pegged the Armstrong box set A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, for a fatter slice of the essential Louis of the 20s and 30s. Because the only advice I ever sought was from this MONK. -Spirituals To Swing John Hammonds great concerts with Basie, Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Helen Humes, Big Joe Turner, James P. Johnson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe. 40. Oscar Peterson (1925-2007) was a jazz pianist. Earlier in the year, Trane had been fired from the Miles Davis Quintet for his heroin addiction, but by September 1957 he had quit drugs for good and began rebuilding both his life and reputation. What about Tubby Hayes, Victor Feldman, Jimmy Deuchar, John Dankworth, Harold McNair, Phil Seaman , Peter King and Ronnie Scott !!! A Charlie Brown Christmas is one of the best of all times. Like MIles he is already well represented here. The 1968 compilation, Piano Starts Here, offers a rewarding snapshot of Tatums jaw-dropping technique and sparked a revival of interest in Tatums music twelve years after his death. 30. I stop at the soul station just to see Hank Mobley you should expand to a list of 100 . 4. LIVE AT THE BLUE NOTE or ELLA AND OSCAR (now THERES killing two birds with one stone!) Im sorry. no Freddie Hubbard, Gato Barbieri, Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Evans Trio Portrait In Jazz Unit Structures features four lengthy explorations in free-form sonics and finds Taylor assisted by six like-minded musicians, including trumpeter Eddie Gale, alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons and drummer Andrew Cyrille. No Ratings Release Date Title 1. Point Of Departure was Hills fifth Blue Note album and it featured a sextet that included Eric Dolphy, Joe Henderson, Kenny Dorham, and a young Tony Williams on drums. I would have included Mingus New Tijuana Moods, Armstrongs Plays WC Handy, perhaps an Abdullah Ibrahim album (Voices of Africa?). sorry, but this place would be for the first solo album recorded by K. Jarrett for ECM in 1973 ! Waltz For Debby was a song inspired by the pianists young niece; first recorded in 1956 on the album New Jazz Conceptions, it quickly became a jazz standard. 26. Its all good. The album begins with a supreme slice of self-penned driving hard bop called Cheese Cake, which would remain in Gordons repertoire until his death in 1990. What does that say for the future? Key track: Red Clay, After three largely ignored self-released albums, this Los Angeles tenor saxophonist who had previously eked a living as a sideman for Snoop Dogg and Lauryn Hill burst into the mainstream like a supernova in 2015 with The Epic, a sprawling triple album that more than lived up to its title. Peter Martin gives a highly subjective list of his top seven jazz piano albums, featuring Art Tatum, Herbie Hancock, Oscar Peterson, Keith Jarrett, The Storyteller Uri Gurvich. Oscar Peterson originally did Medley: Perdido / Caravan, Summertime, I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night and Reunion Blues. Great list. In fact, just put McCoy Tyners album Infinity on there, it is a great album an kills two birds with one stone. You know that by American it was meant as North American and more specifically the United States of American rather than Canada, Central or South American. Id rather put on Four and More or even Nefertiti. to put my personal spin on this devils Island cast away listing or what LPs would accompany me on a trip to Mars. Cassandranite and Love Dance are both really solid albums. 4 out of the top 5 in this list were released in 1959. 28. With an incendiary and inspiring performance that wowed the Newport audience, however, Ellington and his band demonstrated that they could still deliver the goods while asserting that big bands still had a place in jazz. Only the final cut, the gently swinging Riff Raff, doffs its cap to hard bop on what is an ambitious but hugely impressive recording. If the focus is on albums, then maybe it makes a little sense, since Parkers greatness isnt captured by one specific album. Interesting that Ornette Colemans The Shape of Jazz to Come was #5. Paul Desmond That shows you can buy jazz albuns all you want, listen to it all you want, but still dont hear the music. Miles Davis Round About Midnight Garner is accompanied by bassist Eddie Calhoun and drummer Denzil Best, and offers typically flamboyant renderings of standards such as Ill Remember April, Teach Me Tonight, and Autumn Leaves. A vivid live portrait of a piano-playing genius. Support The Music, Jazz is so hard to pick the best its individual thats why we like it blue note top 50 would be hard but kind of blue yes its the real jazz album that got a lot of us interested. Key track: Journey In Satchidananda, Described by Duke Ellington as the Maharajah of the keyboard, Montreal-born Peterson was famed for a florid piano style that expanded the virtuoso aesthetics of his mentor, the great Art Tatum. Key track: Bright Size Life, Six-time Grammy winning American arranger Vince Mendoza is renowned for his collaborations with pop and rock acts (Bjrk, Joni Mitchell) but hes also worked his magic with jazz performers. Thats a pretty ordinary Weather Report album by the way Mysterious Traveller is probably better qualified. Same is true for Mahavishnu and even more so for Bitches Brew. Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants is Number 7. The material played by Jamal and his trio (featuring the formidable pairing of bassist Israel Crosby and drummer Vernel Fournier) ranges from uptempo swingers (Surrey With The Fringe On Top) to dreamy nocturnes (Whats New) and includes a spellbinding reworking of the faintly exotic Poinciana, an obscure 1930s pop song driven by Afro-Cuban rhythms that became Jamals signature tune. I might be wrong. Too many free jazz and avantgarde to my taste. Bessi S. Sara V. Bobby Hutcherson, McCoy Tyner, Ella, Dukes Blanton-Webster Band, Miles Davis Milestones, Jimmie Lunceford, Sara Vaughan with the Count Basle Orchestra, Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt and Stefan Grappelli, soundtrack to Round Midnight, Miles Davis second quintet, Billie Holiday, Benny Carters Further Definitions should all be on the list. They were all musicians in the number one Jazz Album, Miles Davis Kind of Blue. Stayed at the top of the charts for a long time. But.. good average 7/10 score on your list Glad to see Brubeck near the top. Blue Train is an affirmation of Coltranes newfound sense of creativity and features a sextet that comprises pianist Kenny Drew, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones from the Miles Davis band, plus Jazz Messengers Lee Morgan and Curtis Fuller. 23. Louis Armstrong (t, v), Ella Fitzgerald (v), Trummy Young (tb), Ed Hall (cl), Oscar Peterson, Billy Kyle (p), Herb Ellis (g), Ray Brown, Dale Jones (b), Buddy Rich, We all know that Mr. Davis have traveled several MILES, to see the birth of Cool This is a list compiled by a hifi hobbyist and not a music lover. The Sidewinder is even better by LEE MORGAN Billie Holiday. If I put out a list and said blue was the best color, Id get 10,000 comment indicating a different color. Only a Supreme Being named John Coltrane could treat us to A Love Supreme, A Love Supreme, A Love Supreme, A Love Supreme, A Love Supreme. I was 12 years old when I bought this album its the one that started me into jazz ! No Dizzy or Oscar Peterson? If you dont have it (though many of you will have some individual songs), get it! Generally astute list, with a few debatable entries and omissions. (was it just the authors opinion, a committee, based at least some objective criteria, were other lists reviewed for ideas?) I myself could not be happy living without this chunk of music in the world. Highlights include the title track, plus Pannonica (dedicated to Monks European patron, Baroness Kathleen Pannonica De Koenigswarter, on which Monk plays celeste) and Bemsha Swing. A scintillating contemporary take on big band, and one of the greatest jazz albums of all-time. Paul Pley Open to Love Build your jazz vinyl collection with classic titles and under-the-radar favorites. These are all great albums but IMO most of them got their spots because of politics. Time Out album finds Brubecks classic quartet (featuring the eloquent Paul Desmond on alto sax) experimenting with a range of unorthodox time signatures but still managing to balance sonic exploration with an accessible selection of tunes. Im surprised the list didnt include any of Grover Washingtons albums. And if theyre gonna include compilations, then you MUST include the phenomenal CTI Records- The Cool Revolution. A sublime mellow version of Irving Berlins I Remember sets the tone for the album, which also includes four strong original numbers (Dig Dis is the best of them) that demonstrate Mobleys unsung abilities as a composer. Some of us know. Its a joke !!! Denis is an update of gospel-tinged 60s soul jazz while The Stinger is a propulsive swinger that Art Blakey would have been proud of. Sadly, Dolphy died, aged 36, of a diabetes-associated coma four months after recording one of the best jazz albums from the free jazz era. Life is the Dancer Rob Luft. [6] Being a jazz lover, you have to understand that woeful & Eric Dolphy cant possibly be used in the same sentence. This would have to be inclusive yet selective and objective! We all like what WE like and disagree sometimes on what others are digging. Genres: Jazz, Cool Jazz, Bebop. Are Roy Elridge an Dizzy G. forgotten? The Louis Armstrong Hot 5 and Hot Sen discs are Number 1. Nice to see a OP music thread, but I think it should be moved to the Jazz music forum. Believe it or not, youll be cornered at Koln with Keith Jarrett performance. Key track: Duet Solo Dancers (aka Hearts Beat And Shades In Physical Embraces), From Fort Worth, Texas, Ornette Coleman made two albums for Lester Koenigs California-based Contemporary label before joining Atlantic in 1959, where this, his debut for the company, proved one of the most revolutionary albums in jazz. Those and the old stuff from the 20s and 30s as someone else said. No Miles Silent Way, No Trane at the Vanguard, No Trane at Birdland, No Wes Bumpin, No Monk and Trane at the 5 Spot, and especially you cant put Pharoah Sanders Karma in the Top 50???. My dad grew up in the South, used to sneak into all-black venues to hear the early jazz artists. In the early 60s, however, he revived his career at Blue Note. A entire band of great band leaders! Camp Meeting Bruce Hornsby. So did you not see Gilberto/Getz on the list? 14. It also became the title track of this live album recorded in June 1961 at the Village Vanguard in New York. On the gently swinging Autumn Leaves and Love For Sale, Miles plays some bewitching muted trumpet lines, but he doesnt outshine Cannonball or the rest of the group. Key track: Limehouse Blues, Nobody wanted to take a chance on signing pianist/composer Thelonious Monk when he emerged on the New York jazz scene in the late 40s. This is a great list for those who are new to jazz to start out with. Oscar Peterson | 10 Legendary Jazz Piano Recordings - Jazzfuel Sun Roms Jason Adasiewicz. Duke. Miles Davis: Kind of Blue No Gerry Mulligan? How about these: Any such list that leaves out albums by Ella, Dizzy, Lady Day, Count Basie, Lester Young, Artie Shaw, Coleman Hawkins, Jimmy Smith, Art Tatum (among others), and includes the albums numbered 15, 16, 17, 21, 28, 34, & 36 (among others) is simply not properly constituted. Not sure which I would pick for the particular recording, but a couple of jazz musicians that are among my top 5 that I think need to be represented on that list are McCoy Tyner and Michael Brecker. Seriously? Oscar Peterson Albums and Discography | AllMusic Des outils srieux existent : JAZZ dAndr Francis (Solfges_Editions du Seuil) , Le Grand Livre Du Jazz de Joachim Ernst Berendt , qui permettent de procder par liminations successives ; perso , jai du mal accepter labsence de Kenny Burrell A Night at The Vanguard et de Jimmy Smith T Concert by the Sea is not Garners best. Compiling a list of the best jazz albums of all time is a nigh-on impossible task. This is THE place where audiophiles and audio companies discuss vintage, contemporary and new audio products, music servers, music streamers, computer audio, digital-to-analog converters, turntables, phono stages, cartridges, reel-to-reel tape machines, speakers, headphones and tube and solid-state amplification. Ill Considered One Ill Considered. Thanks anyway for Jarretts Koln album Happy to know I am not the only one to Love this album ! Also, no Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and only one listing for Bird (though it includes multiple recordings). Herbie Hancock Man Child? An edited version became a hit single and created a huge global audience for the seductive bossa nova sound. Wrong again. Too much great stuff has been done to ever limit it to 50. The list and the comments thread has been a great learning curve for me. Thanks for this list and all the others. Agree with previous post that the omission of Hartman/Coltrane is a major oversight. Armstrong. Perhaps it is not the fault of the writer or the editor but perhaps it is. It was recorded during a weeklong engagement in the Copa Room at The Sands hotel in Las Vegas when Sinatra, as leader of the Rat Pack, was a regular in that town.
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